Antony And Cleopatra Quotes

16 quotes from 11 authors

Antony and Cleopatra’s fierce love and political rivalry have sparked endless commentary. This selection offers sixteen distinct quotes—from eleven different authors—that distill the drama’s passion, ambition, and tragic downfall. The lines show why the tale still informs discussions of power, romance, and destiny.

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I had always been moved by the story and love of Antony and Cleopatra. Their love moved and changed the world. While…

Shervin Pishevar

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One of my favourite pieces is 'Antony and Cleopatra' - I'd love to be in that. Or an alternative version of 'Romeo…

Cynthia Erivo

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The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past…

Gabrielle Zevin

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I worked at The Old Globe Theater under the great baton of Craig Noel. One of the great theater heroes that we…

Jeffrey Tambor

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Watching and learning from the great Josette Bushell-Mingo, who was playing Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at the time, and then to…

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

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The language is always powerful in Shakespeare, but with 'Antony and Cleopatra,' the speeches are so big and muscular and rich -…

Harriet Walter

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“Herod the Great achieved power in Judea with Roman backing; he brutally suppressed all opposition. Herod was a friend of Marc Antony…

Anonymous

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“being an artist: "And this susceptibility of theirs is doubly unfortunate , I thought, returning again to my original enquiry into what…

Virginia Woolf

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Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how…

Virginia Woolf

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“While they were sitting in the room above his shop there had been a distance, and she had never feared—and never hoped—…

Alice Munro

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“Passion doesn’t count the cost. Pascal said that the heart has its reasons that reason takes no account of. If he meant…

W Somerset Maugham

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“It may take a decade or two before the extent of Shakespeare's collaboration passes from the graduate seminar to the undergraduate lecture,…

James Shapiro

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“We are all women you assure me? Then I may tell you that the very next words I read were these –…

Virginia Woolf

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“As for the other experiences, the solitary ones, which people go through alone, in their bedrooms, in their offices, walking the fields…

Virginia Woolf

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“As for the other experiences, the solitary ones, which people go through alone, in their bedrooms, in their offices, walking the fields…

Virginia Woolf

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“As for describing the smell of a spaniel mixed with the smell of torches, laurels, incense, banners, wax candles and a garland…

Virginia Woolf

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